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motorbike

[moh-ter-bahyk] / ˈmoʊ tərˌbaɪk /
NOUN
motor scooter
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Oscar-winning Irish musician Glen Hansard has died in a motorbike crash in Dublin.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

She makes breakfast for her 87-year-old father and then rides her motorbike to her job as a health aide to 22 other elderly people in this poor farming village west of Bangkok.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Other protesters posed next to a Cepeda float, while honking horns, roaring motorbike engines and shouts of "resistance!" filled the air.

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

With the shelves of state-run shops glaringly empty and public transport drying up, Mipymes and the self-employed now dominate retail food sales and ferry people about -- by taxi, rickshaw and motorbike.

From Barron's Jun. 19, 2026

Several years later the boys would teach me how to ride a motorbike and drive a car, which few women did back then.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Ecuador - beaten 2-0 by Mexico in the World Cup last 32 - lodged a noise complaint with Fifa after fans with loudspeakers, motorbikes and horns disrupted their sleep last week.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

Some young men rode in on their motorbikes and cars they tricked out themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Electric three-wheelers and motorbikes already account for more than 30% and 15% of sales in their respective categories.

From BBC Jun. 3, 2026

Millions of exhaust-belching motorbikes zip through Hanoi's narrow streets every day fuelling its chronic air pollution, but authorities have backtracked from an ambitious plan to ban them in favour of electric two-wheelers.

From Barron's May 19, 2026

There was the constant background noise of motorbikes roaring in the near distance and the sound of voices communicating in a language I was desperately trying to learn but had yet to master.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

Just over one kilometre from the finish line on stage 12, the Briton was forced to run without a bicycle following a crash with a motorbiked on Mont Ventoux.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

Really anxious to see him, I motorbiked down to their house.

From Tatterdemalion by Galsworthy, John

Mr and Mrs Foreman, both 52 from East Sussex, were motorbiking from Spain to Australia when they crossed into Iran on 31 December.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2025

These visceral moments evoke the sense of empowerment motorbiking creates for otherwise underprivileged — young, primarily Black and brown — people.

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2023

A more progressive era dawned with the arrival last year of Françoise Lehmann, Lancôme’s 55-year-old motorbiking general manager.

From New York Times May 10, 2018

He loves it, for the motorbiking and because “all the schools are like Grease”.

From The Guardian Jan. 14, 2017

There are features on French wines and women, fashions in leather and rough-country motorbiking.

From Time Magazine Archive




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